. The Argonaut . Surprise Party, by Olive ThorneMiller (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; $), aninteresting little book, which will be foundrather fascinating in plan, for at the surprise-party the grown-ups take turns in telling en-thralling, yet probable stories, illustrative ofthe heroism, or presence of mind, or devo-tion to duty of their plucky girl heroines. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett found shehad more to tell about Sara Crewe, andrevives her in so handsome a volume that The Little Princess (Charles ScribnersSons; $) seems quite a fitting shrine forits dainty child heroine. Mrs. Burnett
. The Argonaut . Surprise Party, by Olive ThorneMiller (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; $), aninteresting little book, which will be foundrather fascinating in plan, for at the surprise-party the grown-ups take turns in telling en-thralling, yet probable stories, illustrative ofthe heroism, or presence of mind, or devo-tion to duty of their plucky girl heroines. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett found shehad more to tell about Sara Crewe, andrevives her in so handsome a volume that The Little Princess (Charles ScribnersSons; $) seems quite a fitting shrine forits dainty child heroine. Mrs. Burnett is anadept at writing interesting stories for chil- dren, although there is, to a plain taste,something too exotic about her introspectiveyoung heroines with precocious emotionaldevelopment- The volume is illustrated innotably handsome style by Ethel FranklinBetts, who evidently models her work onJessie Wilcox Smiths fine compositions. Racy Verse on American Topics At the Sign of the Dollar By WALLACE IRWIN. Im killiri folks off at a nominal pro/it. If there are any vulnerable spots in men and things to-day, Wallace Irwin has found them.—Boston Herald. Mr. Irwin does not aim at making the reader . wants to make us chortle, and he succeeds.—New YorkTribune. In a few short poetical feet Mr. Irwin can generallypack more telling points than an editorial writer in a columnof prose. Pictures by E. W. KEMBLE At all Booksellers. $ FOX, DUFFIELD & CO., New York JVo Gift Book ever came out of a box that was prettier than BRET HARTES
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